Metro Weekly

Music

  • Cutting Crew

    Last year Cut Copy turned down Lady Gaga. ''We were literally in the middle of making our record and we couldn't commit to a year...

  • Return to Form

    ''It's just like me to overstay my welcome,'' Michael Stipe sings near the top of R.E.M.'s new album Collapse Into Now. Later, the queer artist...

  • Norwegian Nonsense

    ''It's just a ridiculous name for a group,'' chuckles Svein Berge, one-half of the Norwegian duo known as Röyksopp. ''Let's call ourselves something that is...

  • Mixing It Up

    ''It was really great. Lots of new people, younger people, and a lot of the performances sold out.'' Scott Kenison is still basking in the...

  • Winds of Change

    When Valerie Coleman was forming what became the Imani Winds quintet, Mariam Adam says, ''she wanted the players to look like her.'' Specifically, Coleman, a...

  • Cultural Crossroads

    ''There's so much stuff going on,'' says Scott Kenison. ''It's really like multicultural on steroids.'' Kenison, chief operating officer of the Atlas Performing Arts Center,...

  • Soul Fire

    You want a telling sign that Adele Adkins, known by just her first name, has talent to spare, that she's the genuine article? How about...

  • Keeping the Faith

    Twenty-four years ago, George Michael launched Faith with an organ playing the melody from ''Freedom,'' a hit he had with Wham! a couple years prior....

  • Military Serenade

    Mike Almy only came out to his parents after he became a leading activist pushing repeal of the military's Don't Ask, Don't Tell policy. ''I...

  • Winds Power

    ''We're a family,'' says Laura Harris, president of D.C.'s Different Drummers. ''We try to take care of each other, we look out for each other.......

  • Classical Treatment

    ''Until very recently, I went out of my way in all of my songs to... in the second person,'' says singer-songwriter Dar Williams. ''Because then...

  • Swinging Standards

    ''It's all right for younger people to like older music,'' says pianist John Eaton, an expert of the Great American Songbook and jazz music from...

  • On the Wright Track

    Life after coming out may be liberating, but that doesn't mean there won't be some speed bumps along the way. When Chely Wright came out...

  • Beat It

    ''This is the best one yet, and I'm so happy,'' Stacy ''Fergie'' Ferguson boasts toward the end of The Beginning. Regardless of how much you...

  • The Year in Music

    Twenty-ten will go down as the year of gay pop. Oh sure, at least a couple openly gay pop stars have gotten our attention most...